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LA Review of Books recently published my Q&A with Irish novelist Sara Baume, which includes lots of beautiful images of Baume’s work, along with the photographic variants between editions of A Line Made by Walking. Check it out!

My publication about H.D.’s needleworks in The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945. Abstract: H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961) maintained a longstanding interest in the material and artistic history of needlework, a practice that helped her conceptualize, theorize, and overcome traumatic wartime experiences. This essay presents, for the first time, an archive of H.D.’s needlework and demonstrates…

I’m a writer and assistant professor of English at Macalester College. I teach courses on modern and contemporary British and Irish literature, visual culture, and modernism. I’m currently hard at work on my first book project, which looks at how women authors have taken up art-making as a way to creatively—and materially—oppose inequality and violence.…

“’Making Splendid Things’: The Potter’s Wheel Online Archive” is a digital archive collection focused on the lives and works of the Potters, a women’s art collective that created a handmade, multimedia magazine. This group of early-20th century women writers, artists, and designers lived and worked in St. Louis, Missouri. This site aims to do three…